Slide buckle



Patented Feb. 10, 1931 JOHN H. nominal, or owner HAVEN, conunorrour,

mnurac'rnnrne COMPANY,- oonnnorrcu'r ries ASSIGNOR TO THE WIRE NOVELTY OF HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF SLIDE BUCKLE a Application filed April 4, 1930. SerialNo. 441, 70.

This invention relates to slide buckles employed for adjusting the length ofstraps,

webbing, and the like, upon which the buckle is mounted, the adjustment being maintained thereby without penetration into the material, and the objects of the invention are to provide an entirely rigid and indestructible slide buckle; to provide a slide buckle that is reversible; to provide a slide buckle of integral outer and inner frames of which the sides lie in a common plane and of which the inner frame provides angularly bent bars relatively spaced and extending across the frames in spaced relation to parallel bars of the outer frame; and to provide such an outer and inner frame structure of which the metal of respective terminals are united in permanent intimate union with engaging metal of the frames. With these and other objects in view as may become apparent from the within disclosures, the invention consists not only of the particular form herein pointed out and illustrated in the drawing, but readily admits of certain modifications within the scope of what may hereinafter be claimed;

The character of the improvement may be best understood by reference to one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by the drawing in which the Figure 1 is an elevation of the buckle of which a reversed elevation would be'identical'; the Figure 2 is a top view thereof; and the Figure 3 is a perspective view,the Figure 4- being an elevation of a modified structure.

Referring more particularly to the drawing the buckle is made from a single piece of wire of which a middle portion is bent to form an outer rectangular frame having the upper bar 1 and the lower bar 2 integrally connected by the side bar 3, the opposite side of the outer frame being engaging looped structure te 5 provided by bending each wire portion within the frame and back upon itself, the remaining wire portions being bent in planes parallel to those of the upper and lower bars 1 and 2, respectively, to provide the bars-6 and 7 of the inner frame, the parts 6 and? being further bent, in the formation of the looped terminalse and 5' andthe bent bars of the respectively, formed by the rminals 4 and,

bars, emerge from the plane of the outer frame inone direction and angularly bent to cross and emerge from said plane of the outer'frame in the opposite direction, and then angularly rebent to recross said plane of the outer frame, repeatedly, to thus extend relatively spaced from one side of the frame to the other side thereof, the wire terminals 8 and 9 being bent into relative longitudinal alignment within the frame adjacent the side bar 3 .to complete the inner frame of which the bent bars 6 and 7 provide spaced peaked humps 10 projecting out of the plane of the buckle in one direction and spaced peaked humps 11 projecting out of the plane of the buckle in the opposite direction. The aligned wire terminals 8 and 9, respectively, are united in permanent intimate union by means of welding, brazing, or soldering, as at 12 and 12. The structure above described and illustrated by the Figures 1, 2, and 3, differs from the structure described and illustrated bythe same applicant in an application filed December 13, 1929, Serial Number 413,863, in that there is'there disclosed a slide buckle comprising a pair of loops in a common plane and having bent intermediate bars 1n relatlvely close assoclatlon and providing the spaced peaked humps extending in opposite directions out of-the buckle plane,

while the present application discloses a.

structure of inner and outer frames arranged within a common plane, the relatively spaced inner frame providing the spaced peaked humps extending in opposite directions out of the buckle plane. The relatively spaced and bent bars 6 and 7 may be of more or less distance apart, but their spaced relation to the parallel bars 1 and 2, approximately as illustrated, is better adapted to offset a strap, (not illustrated) intended to be threaded into the buckle in the usual manner, than if the bars 6 and 7 were relatively spaced, for instance, a thirty-second of an inch apart. The buckle is reversible in use in that the reversed elevation to that illustrated is identical therewith. r v Y r The structure illustrated by the Figure 4 extend relatively spaced and in spaced relation to the upper and lower bars, respectively, to the integrally connecting side bar, the wire extremities being bent into alignment, one with the. other, within the frame,

and .the engaging metal of the extremities and the engaging metalof the. side portions being united, respectively, in permanent intimateunion to provide a rigid structure.

JOHN H DOMKEE;

tively spaced bars 6A and 7A of the inner frame being bent as in the preferred form to provide the spaced peaked humps 10A and 11A. The extremities, of the wire terminals 3A and 9A being. united in permanent intimate union with engaging portions of the frames, as at 12B, themeetingmetal surfaces of the bars 4A and 5A being also relatively united in the same manner, as atl2A. 7

I claim 1-. A slide buckle comprising. a piece ofwire of which a middle portion is bent to form. a rectangular frame having upper and lower parallel bars, other integral portions of the 7 wire beingbent toprovide intermediate bars relatively spaced and parallelly spaced from' the upper and lower bars, respectively, each of the intermediate bars being bent to emerge from the plane of the frame in one direction and angularly bent to cross and emerge from saidplane in the opposite direction andthen V I rebent to recross said plane,repeatedly,' the metal of the structural and wire terminals being united in permanent intimate union with the engaging metal of the frame to .pro-

} vide avrigid structure.

2. A. slide bucklercomprising a piece of wire bent to integrally formouter and inner frames having opposite sides lying in a common plane and having relatively spaced upper and lower bars of which the bars of the'inner frame are bent out of said plane in one direction and angularly rebent-to cross and emerge from said plane in the opposite direction and then angularly rebent to recross said plane,

"repeatedly, to thus extend-relatively spaced from one side of the frames to the opposite side thereof, andthe'metal engaging. structuraland wire terminals beingunited in .permanent intimate union with the frames.

8.-A slide buckle comprising apiece of wire of which a middle portion is bent to form a rectangular frame having upper and lower bars integrally connected by a side bar,

portions of the wirealigned, one with the other, cooperating to form the opposite side of the frame, each'alig ned portion being bent back upon itself within the frame, and the remaining wire portions being bent to emerge out of the plane of the frame in one direction and angularly bent to cross and emerge from said plane in the opposite direction and then rebent to recross said plane, repeatedly, to 

